Apparatus for baking, roasting, cooking, and the like



Dc. 18,1923. H 1,47%414 K. E. R. NYSTROM APPARATUS FOR BAKING, ROASTING, COOKING. AND THE LIKE Filed April 5, 1922 Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

SWEDEN, ASSIGNCR TO AK- TIEBOLAGET OPTIJl/IUS, OF UFLANDS-VASBZ. St EDEE-I, CGRPOBATISN GE S -NFJD APPARATUS FOR- BAKING, BOflSTIITG, COOKING, AND THE LIKE.

Application filed April 3,

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KNUT ERNST Ruin- 1mm. citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden, resid n at Stockholm, Sweden. have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Baking, Roasting, Cookand the like of which the following a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus which is adapted to be used on grates or in connection with petroleum stoves, spirit burners, gas burners and tie like and by means ot which plurality of culinary oporation cooking, baking. roasting and so oil-may be 'CElIllt-lCl out simultaneously 0-.

a s1 gle flame in a very short time.

Cooking,- apparatus for gas, spirit or petroleum are alreac y Well-known. in which single flame serves for heating of cooking vessels disposed one above the other. but such apparatus are not suitable tor-simultaneous roasting, baking and cooking as they do not have regard for the fact 7 that roasting, baking and cooking; operations require different lengths of time and also essentially differenttemperatures. Baking and roasting require a higher temperature than cooking and the former operations must, therefore be carried out in the part of the apparatus nearest to the flame Where the temperature is very high, While the cooking operation should be effected in the up per part of the apparatus. Baking and roasting operations, moreover, are generally terminated in a shorter time than cooking of foodstuffs. Care must, theretorabe taken that the heatgenerated by the burner. in spite of the baking or roasting operations which are carried out in the lower part of the apparatus, can rise sufficiently rapidly and freely so that the heating gases also can heat cooking vessels to the boiling point in the uppermost part of the apparatus. The cooki oroperation should not be essentially disturbed by the removal or shitting the baking or r asting pans in the lower part of the apparatus. Furthermore, it must be obser ed that the steam which is evolved in cooking considerably reduces the temperature of the heating gases, when mixed with the latter and prevents the baking if bel ting and cooking should take place in the same compartment of the apparatus.

The present apparatus is constructed With the above mentioned requirements in view remove or ii ert the bak number 1922. Serial 1'10. 549,083.

and the invention consists. chieflv. in the combination of a housing. an intermediate perforated bottom dividing the interior of the housing into one upper cooking compar ment d one lower l'uikinp roasting compartment, means tor supportin' ing vessel above said bottom. means porting other culinary vessels at do levels in the lower compartment said means allowing the heat noses from the source of heat freely to rise alon e walls of the housing up to the intermer' bottom, and doors access to said lower compart (Pu account of the absence .if nediate bottoms in the lower the apparatus, it is possible to open the or roasting pans Without 1 ring essentially with the cooking operation taking place in the upper compartment of the apparatus.

In the accompanying {ll'flWl I have shown diagrammatically one embodiment of my nvention.

, Referring to the drawing. consists of a prefv a ly cyl A of sheet or castiron, in which a plural y of culinary vess ls. such as roasti pans and cooking vessels can be placed abo e each other. In the upper part 01"- the housing? an intermediate bottom (2 is provided which has a central opening- (Z and supports (2 for sup porting a cooking: To: l placed thereon. be part oi the apparaus which lies beneaththe saidbottoin torms a s ngle tree room without inter to luttoms. said room being divic l I into comertments by means of grates. k. E. projections f or the like at different levels on which roasting or baking pans can be placed. The heatine gases can thus ri alon the inner wall oi the housing sufficiently freely tor he ting to the boiling-point the contents oi a rocking vessel placed above the intermediate l'ioltom c. The draft in the 3:11 is is. as the ex perience has shown. sulficicntly great to 21]. lO'W the doors 1 ot the lower com artment to be opened for removing or in. baking or roasting pans. Without ran: up; the boiling; in the cook ei vessel. placed above the bottom 0, to cease.

For facilitating the insertion and removal of the vessels in the lower compartment of the apparatus one or more rings 2' are secured to the doors in or said rings may be ro tatably secured directly to the housing at the lit side of the door openin Such devicefor supporting the pans has also a great practical value inasmuch as it makes it possible to maintain the contents of the pan in full boiling when thicl zening sauces, creams and imilar foods as the pan can be turned to and fro above the flame by the right hand while the meal is added with the left hand.

The doors 7:, may be provided with small openings h in such position that usual shafted culinary vessels may be used in the apparatus, if desired, without preventing the closing of the doors. At the bottom the apparatus is provided with agas burner 0; which is seated in a rotatable ring 1' in such manner that the connection of the gas burner with an existing gas pipe in the kitchen can be eas ly etiected. The gas burner is detachably seated in the ring 1" so that, if desired, it can be removed for enabling the use of another source of heat, as for instance astationary gas burner or a petroleum stove. The legs 6 of the apparatus have the form of bows and are adjustable and removable being displaceable in corresponding guide sleeves b secured to the housing, so that the length thereof can be suited to the source of heating to be used. Preferably the legs I) are springy so that, without any special locking means, they will be automatically kept in the adjusted position.

In order to keep the culinary vessels placed on the bars 7 or the projections 70,1 centered in the housing and thus to secure a uniform rising of the heating gases along the walls of the housing vertical, guiding ribs 8 may be provided on the inside of the housin On account of the uniform distribution of the heating gases thus secured the heating of the baking and roasting pans inserted in the apparatus will be quite uniform. The projections or arms 70, Z preferably are hinged to the wall of the housing so that, if desired, they can be folded upwards or sideways. The arms may have double joints so that they may be folded to a greater or smaller length at will thus suiting them for pans of different diameters. For facilitating the folding up or down of the said arms they are preferably made of angle-iron or provided with lateral projections. At the top the housing is provided with draft holes at and it may be closed by a cover when the upper compartment is not used for cooking. If on the other hand a cooking vessel is placed in said compartment said vessel or its cover preferably should ha e such diameter that it practically tightens against the flange a of the housing.

What I claim is 1. An apparatus for simultaneous baking,

roasting,cooking and the' likeby means of a single source of heat placed "at the base of the' apparatus, comprising a vertical cylindric'al housing, "an intermediate centrally housing in said lower compartment, doors 7 giving access to said lower compartment and swingable; rings adapted to support 'culinary pans inthe lower compartment of the housing. I V

2. An apparatus for simultaneous baking, roasting, cooking and the like by means of a single source of heat placed at the base of the apparatus, comprising a vertical'cylindrical housing, an intermediate centrally perforated bottom dividing the interior of the housing into one'upper cooking compartment and one lower baking and roasting compartment, means for supporting a cooking vessel above said bottom, projections foldably'secured to'theinterior wall ofthe housing at different levels in said lower compartment, doors giving'access to said lower compartment, and rings secured to said doors and adapted .tosupport culinary pans. a I j 3. An apparatus for simultaneousbaking, roasting, cooking and the like bymeans of a single source of heatplaced-at the base of the apparatus, comprising a vertical cylindrical housing, an. intermediate centrally perforated bottom dividing the interior of the housing into one upper cooking compartment and one lower baking and roasting compartment, means for supporting a cooking vessel above said'bottom, means for supportingother vessels'at diiferent'levels in the lower compartment, and vertical 'uiding ribs secured to the inner"wa1l of the housing. p j

4. An apparatus for simultaneous baking, roasting, cooking and the like'by means of a single source of heat,cbmprising a vertical cylindrical housing, an intermediate, centrally perforated-bottom in said housing dividing the interior of the housing in one upper and one lower compartment, means for supportingculinary pans at .diiferent levels in said lower; compartment, doors giving access to said lowercompartment'and having openings in such position as to allow the handles of the pans to "project therethrough.

In testi name.

mony wheiredf I have signed my iiiiiir than "iiiiitiiotn natal. 

